Funny Are You Smarter Questions: Two Surprising Trivia Boards
PLAYER QUESTIONS: write one A-D answer for each question.
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Surprise board one: nature breaks the rules
Prerequisites: Fractions, everyday words and a willingness to let facts surprise you.

Question 1 | Animal surprises
An octopus could send several Valentine's cards. How many functioning hearts does it have?
A. 1
B. 3
C. 2
D. 4
Your answer: ______

Question 2 | Animal surprises
An octopus's oxygen-carrying pigment makes its blood which colour?
A. Purple
B. Red
C. Green
D. Blue
Your answer: ______

Question 3 | Space twists
Which planet takes longer for one full rotation than for one orbit around the Sun?
A. Venus
B. Earth
C. Mars
D. Jupiter
Your answer: ______

Question 4 | Space twists
The Red Planet has a surprise near the setting Sun. What colour is that glow often seen from Mars?
A. Violet only
B. Bright green
C. Blue
D. Black
Your answer: ______

Question 5 | Word oddities
In standard English, how many letters in 'queue' can be removed from its end while the remaining first letter still sounds like the word?
A. 2
B. 1
C. 4
D. 3
Your answer: ______

Question 6 | Word oddities
Which word has three consecutive doubled-letter pairs: oo, kk and ee?
A. Bookkeeper
B. Bookcase
C. Bookmark
D. Bookseller
Your answer: ______

Question 7 | Kitchen surprises
Which of these is botanically a true berry, despite its everyday name?
A. Peach
B. Strawberry
C. Apple
D. Banana
Your answer: ______

Question 8 | Kitchen surprises
Which 'berry' here is not a true botanical berry?
A. Grape
B. Strawberry
C. Tomato
D. Banana
Your answer: ______

Question 9 | Numbers that fool us
On the same scale in the same room, which has more mass: 1 kg of feathers or 1 kg of stones?
A. Neither; they have equal mass
B. The feathers
C. The stones
D. It depends on feather colour
Your answer: ______

Question 10 | Numbers that fool us
A pizza is cut into eight equal slices. A guest eats three. What fraction of the original pizza did they eat?
A. 5/8
B. 1/3
C. 3/8
D. 3/5
Your answer: ______

FINAL CHALLENGE | Final Challenge
Three pizzas have eight equal slices each. Guests take three slices apiece. How many guests can receive exactly that share?
A. 12
B. 6
C. 9
D. 8
Your answer: ______

Surprise board two: read that again
Prerequisites: Classification, careful spelling and area comparison. Read all scope words aloud.

Question 1 | Animal rule-breakers
A shark's skeleton is made mainly of what, rather than bone?
A. Wood-like fibre
B. Cartilage
C. Shell
D. Chitin
Your answer: ______

Question 2 | Animal rule-breakers
Which mammal lays eggs and still feeds milk to its young?
A. Seal
B. Otter
C. Beaver
D. Platypus
Your answer: ______

Question 3 | Solar-system mischief
Which pair of planets has no known natural moons?
A. Mercury and Venus
B. Earth and Mars
C. Jupiter and Saturn
D. Uranus and Neptune
Your answer: ______

Question 4 | Solar-system mischief
Mars looks rusty for a reason. Which substance in its soil supplies that reddish colour?
A. Sugar crystals
B. Table salt
C. Iron oxide
D. Copper sulphate
Your answer: ______

Question 5 | Letters behaving oddly
Which number word has its letters in alphabetical order from left to right?
A. Sixty
B. Thirty
C. Forty
D. Twenty
Your answer: ______

Question 6 | Letters behaving oddly
Which number word has as many letters as its numerical value?
A. Four
B. Three
C. Five
D. Eight
Your answer: ______

Question 7 | Kitchen transformations
What makes ordinary yeast bread puff up before baking?
A. Carbon dioxide from fermentation
B. Oxygen released by salt
C. Air from kneading alone
D. Water vapour from chilling
Your answer: ______

Question 8 | Kitchen transformations
Why can an ice cube float in its own meltwater?
A. Ice contains no matter
B. Ice is less dense than liquid water
C. Ice has greater density
D. Liquid water repels all solids
Your answer: ______

Question 9 | Everyday surprises
A 12-hour clock stops with its hands in place. How many times per 24 hours can its displayed time still match the correct time?
A. 2
B. 0
C. 1
D. 24
Your answer: ______

Question 10 | Everyday surprises
Which spelling contains only one of the vowels a, e, i, o and u, despite having nine letters?
A. Adventure
B. Education
C. Strengths
D. Agreement
Your answer: ______

FINAL CHALLENGE | Final Challenge
A square cake has side 8 cm. A second square has side 4 cm. How many times the smaller cake's area is the larger cake's area?
A. 16
B. 2
C. 8
D. 4
Your answer: ______